I never saw that great woman, Mary Wollstonecraft, but I have read her eloquent and unanswerable arguments in behalf of the libert...y of womankind. I have met and known most of the progressive women who came after her--Lucretia Mott, the Grimke sisters, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone--a long galaxy of great women.... Those older women have gone on, and most of those who worked with me in the early years have gone. I am here for a little time only and then my place will be filled as theirs was filled. The fight must not cease; you must see that it does not stop.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

So 'a bade me lay more clothes on his feet. I put my hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; then I f...elt to his knees, and so upward and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,But sad mortality o'ersways their power,...How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,Whose action is no stronger than a flower?O how shall summer's honey breath hold outAgainst the wrackful siege of batt'ring days,When rocks impregnable are not so stout,Nor gates of steel so strong but time decays?O fearful meditation, where alack,Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid?Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back,Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and wait there; and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the and the... commandment, which I have written for their instruction."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »